Marcus White

May 27, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Marcus White

Former Prime Minister Theresa May has admitted making mistakes over her "hostile environment" policies on illegal immigration. She said she did not foresee problems they would cause for legal immigrants, including the Windrush generation. She also said Home Office-sponsored vans in 2013 with "Go home or face arrest" written on them were "wrong". The MP for Maidenhead, who is leaving Parliament at the election, made the comments during an ITV documentary.

May 20, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Marcus White

NHS clinicians treated boarding school pupils for a blood disorder despite being "well aware" of the risk of infecting them with HIV, the Infected Blood Inquiry has found. Boys at Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire were used as "objects for research", the inquiry concluded. Only 30 of 122 pupils with haemophilia at the school in the 1970s and 80s are still alive, its final report added. The college said it was "devastated" that former pupils were affected.

May 15, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Marcus White

A ceremony has been held to mark the historic arrival of France's Freedom Flame in the UK. The flame, which normally burns at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris, has left its home for the first time in its 101-year history as part of D-Day 80th anniversary events. A civic and military reception was held at Portsmouth Port on Tuesday evening. It will be on display at the city's D-Day Story museum before travelling to the United States.

May 9, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Marcus White

A former mayor who admitted smothering his 92-year-old mother with a cushion has been cleared of attempted murder. David McLean's terminally-ill mother Margaret died at her home in Waltham Chase, Hampshire, in October 2022. The 72-year-old ex-Winchester mayor told police he killed her because he could not bear to watch her approaching death, the city's crown court heard. However, the judge, Mrs Justice McGowan, told jurors there was insufficient evidence in the case.

May 1, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Michele Cross |Marcus White

A retired couple have been living in a caravan and hotels for 18 months after repeated flooding at their bungalow. Michael and Christine Cooper, from Brading, Isle of Wight, blamed highway drainage and a build-up of river silt for the problems since September 2022. The Environment Agency said the island had experienced its "heaviest rainfall in decades due to climate change". Island Roads said the site was in a low-lying area that was vulnerable to flooding from the Eastern Yar river.